妙法蓮華經文句 2.14

2.14

「薄拘羅」者，此翻善容，或偉形，或大肥盛，或腬囊，或楞鄧，或賣性，然而色貌端正，故言善容也。年一百六十歲，無病無夭，有五不死報。後母置熬槃釜中、水中，魚食、刀破皆不死，昔持不殺戒故，九十一劫命不中夭。昔施僧一訶梨勒果故，身常無病，能持一戒、四戒莊嚴，堅持不犯不避火水，餘人雖持五戒，多毀犯也（云云）。身樂寂靜，常處閑居，不樂眾中，眼不樂玄黃等色，耳不樂聞世間之聲，鼻不嗅世間香臭，舌不曾為人說一兩句語，意常在禪定不散亂，乃至舍利塔亦樂閑靜。阿育王禮諸羅漢塔，次至其塔而說偈言：「雖自練無明，於世少利益。」供二十貝子。《增一》云：「施一錢而貝子從塔飛出，來著王足。諸臣驚怪，閑靜少欲乃至其塔猶有是力故。」《增一》云：「壽命極長終不中夭，常樂閑居，不處眾中，薄拘羅第一。」

“Vakkula” is translated as “Good Countenance”, or “Stately Form”, or “Greatly Plump and Vigorous”, or “Fat Sack”, or “Clumsy”, or “Selling Nature”. However, his facial appearance was upright and handsome, hence he is called “Good Countenance”. He lived to one hundred and sixty years of age, without illness and without untimely death, possessing the retribution of five non-deaths. His stepmother placed him in a roasting pan, a cauldron, and in water, he was eaten by a fish, and cut open by a knife, yet in all of these he did not die. Because he formerly observed the precept against killing, for ninety-one kalpas his life did not end untimely. Because he formerly gave a single harītakī fruit to the Saṅgha, his body was permanently free of illness. He was able to keep one precept, and four precepts adorned him; he firmly upheld it without violation, avoiding neither fire nor water. Although other people observe the five precepts, they often violate them (and so on). In body he rejoiced in stillness, constantly abiding in solitude, taking no pleasure among the multitude. His eyes took no pleasure in dark, yellow, or other colours; his ears took no pleasure in hearing worldly sounds; his nose did not smell worldly aromas or stenches; his tongue had never spoken a word or two for anyone; his mind was constantly in meditative concentration without distraction, and even his relics in the stūpa took pleasure in quiet solitude. When King Aśoka paid homage to the stūpas of the arhats, he next arrived at his stūpa and spoke a verse, saying: “Though you trained yourself [away from] ignorance, you provided little benefit to the world.” He offered twenty cowrie shells. The Ekottarika-āgama states: “He offered one coin, and the cowrie shells flew out from the stūpa and came to land at the king's feet. The ministers were astonished: because of his solitude and few desires, even his stūpa still possessed such power.” The Ekottarika-āgama states: “Among those whose lifespan is extremely long, never dying untimely, and who constantly take pleasure in solitude without dwelling among the multitude, Vakkula is foremost.”